- Enforced semantic versioning for CI/CD catalog components, added GitLab Duo AI access governance controls, and introduced Wiki page templates for consistent documentation.
- Integrated ClickHouse for high‑performance DevOps analytics, enabled GitLab Pages and Advanced Search on Dedicated instances, and added the ability to offload CI runner traffic to Geo secondary sites.
- Dropped support for Kubernetes ≤1.24, upgraded Patroni (requiring downtime) and Alertmanager (removing API v1), and deprecated MySQL 5.7 in Mattermost, alongside various API filtering and UI visibility improvements.